My daily and the weekend toy - warning, get coffee. And food

[PhillipM]

[Killrob]

*sigh* The photographer needs to learn panning...
But on a serious note: that looks awesome!

[Daffyflyer]

And that photo REALLY makes me want your buggy..

[PhillipM]

And here's our amazing new colour-changing paint:

[PhillipM]

[PhillipM]

Got some pictures from the end of last year from Minehead and Kirton too

[serothis]

wow. that looks like a heck of a lot of fun. I love some of those flying buggy shots. Also does the magical color changing paint act as a barometer of how much fun you're having

[PhillipM]

[PhillipM]

Hey, the old shock oil doesn't look too bad for 2 years of abuse, sure, it's a little dark, but it's clear, not cloudy and no real debris in there either, gotta be good, right?



I mean, even the seals and shims look spotless, next to no wear on them at all



And the new oil is just the same colo.....oh, wait, maybe the old oil was a little tired then....

[PhillipM]

Well, the site was better suited to swimming today - pressing the throttle pedal down in any gear at all just meant the mud flew higher - the car didn't go any faster

Unfortunately, we had trouble with the alternator on the second run, which lost us 10 minutes whilst we bodged it back together with side cutters and tie-wraps.

However, the next few laps we barely made it around - literally creeping along sideways on full lock at 1mph through a few sections they were so slippery, and then just to top it off, on the very last lap, either the gearbox or the clutch plate let go with a bang whilst launching off the start line

Bah!

[PhillipM]

Well, got our nice new 15 tooth starter wheel and new clutch centre yesterday, so, in a mad rush today, we chopped the starter mount off, fitted the new pinion gear, moved the mountings welded it all back up, refitted the clutch, lifted the engine in, bolted the rear frame/cage back on, fitted the exhaust/wiring/oil/fuel lines/etc, and fired her up!

With an hour of tweaking with some cold start enrichments it's now much faster at starting again, great.

So, fitted the floor, seats, belts, etc, put it in gear to reverse out of the workshop and load up to go racing tommorow. And no drive.

Feck.

So, by this time completely knackered from rushing around, and after lots of energetic swearing, we got stuck in and ripped it all back out in about 10 minutes. Only to find the clutch pressure plate has died and there's no way of fixing it or getting a new one in time for tommorow.

I am just very slightly annoyed. A little bit. About a hairs-width away from setting the thing on fire.

[PhillipM]

Long overdue an update, some pics from the next event:







Unfortunately, the engine blew up, again.

[PhillipM]

[PhillipM]

And here's some more of that muddy stuff:

[PhillipM]

And the inevitable:

"Compression test today after a sudden loss of power at the last event - looks like this one is kaput too. Yay."

After a lot of mucking around, we found out the side housing hardening had been ground through by the engine builder, cue nearly 12 months of back and forth arguements and liability claims, plus missing the rest of the season and being down a whole lot of money for an engine that did 200 miles, and we pretty much got to the point where the car was just sat in a shed for months so we advertised it for sale, so someone else could slap a little 4 cylinder or something in it and enjoy it at a more relaxed pace.